Sunday, November 7, 2010

As of this moment, I have submissions for petty gods with the following areas of patronage:

Accidental Death

Addiction, Recidivism, and Uncontrolled Urges

Axe Executions

Beggars, Mendicants, and Drifters

Blood Letting

Boredom and Ennui

Broken Glass

Broken Relationships

Butcher's Alley

Charlatans

Closing Time

Concubines

Cornfields

Corroded Cookware and Brewing Gone Bad

Crossroads

Currency Debasement

Damsels in Distress

Doors and Locks

Drowned Sailors

Dying Men's Breaths

Female Scholars

Finances and Investments

Forked Tunnels

Frayed Ropes

Giant Stone Heads in the Wilderness

Hats

Hiccups

Hunger

Judicious Retreat

Kidnapping

Lost Chapters

Lost Items

Lost Time

Medlars (a kind of fruit tree)

Misperception Due to Intoxication

Misplaced Items

Mocking

Molds and Jellies

Oppressed and Downtrodden

Plagues and Traitors

Pratfalls

Preventing Flatulence

Print Errors and Minor Heresies

Protection from Angry Gamblers

Pub-Crawling and Drunken Love

Quality Footwear

Silence

Southeast Wind

Stains

Streetlamp Lighters

Subterranean Darkness

Swamps

Ten-Foot Poles

The Rock

Things Mislaid and Unexpectedly Found

Vandals

Very Small Spiders

Wine and Merriment

Now, simply because a god appears on this list does not mean that it will necessarily be included in the final product. Likewise, there's no reason that someone couldn't submit a different entry for any of the above areas of patronage. However, I think it's a good idea to inform potential submitters of the submissions I've already received so that they can tailor their entries accordingly.

I'll include an up-to-date version of this list each Sunday, so people can see how the project is progressing, but I'm exceedingly happy so far. Nearly 60 entries is pretty remarkable and enough artists have stepped up to offer their services illustrating this that I have no doubt every god will have a portrait accompanying it.

Thanks again to everyone for helping to get this project off to a great start.

Thanks Chris, that was inspired by the famous Printer's Bible misprint ("Printers have persecuted me without a cause" rather than "Princes have persecuted me..."). I presume that it was a deliberate insertion by an aggrieved typesetter.

The existence of a God of Quality Footwear suggests that he is opposed by a Shoddy God. And that they have kickboxing fights.

Whoa ... I jotted down a couple ideas when you first announced this, and I figured I get back to them in a week or so, submit them a little later. Seeing how quickly things have moved, I'm now seriously worried about getting left behind in the dust.

There is actually a "Saint Fiacre" of Ireland... I am informed he is the patron saint of gardeners, taxi cab drivers, venereal disease sufferers, barrenness, box makers, fistula, florists, hemorrhoids, hosiers, pewterers, tile makers and ploughboys. I was aware of the gardener and hemorrhoid connections; the others take me a little by surprise.In my own campaigns, Hermes has served as a patron for both messengers and florists... although none of the players have needed any intercession from Hermes in regard to delivery of floral arrangements.

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